How to recover data from bad hard drive?

From the very first day you bought your computer, anything can go wrong with it, after all it is a human made machine. Some hard drive may fail prematurely due to its operation in hot, humid or dusty environment, while some of them may fail in cool, clean and dry environments. Virus attack like malware, adware, spyware, Trojan and root kits can also lead to bad hard drive. This can be due to using your machine in an unsecured network or downloading malicious program along with the files from internet. You can easily erase viruses by reformatting your hard drive and perform installation of Windows OS but most of the people do not keep back up of their file and might think that they have lost their valuable data from the hard drive forever. But truth is that you can still recover your important files from the hard drive by using a recovery tool. In case if you want to recover the drive formatted via any scenarios then you can do it easily. To get more details regarding this tool click here.

Symptoms of a bad hard drive are:

• Your computer screen may freeze for a time and does not allow to open and access your files.
• You may find corrupted files and folders, which you are unable to open and access the information.
• You may receive CRC error message which indicates that your drive has bad sectors.
• Your machine may ask you to scan hard drive constantly at boot up using inbuilt disk repair tool.

Some data loss scenario which leads to bad hard drive:

• Error in hard drive: While installing new operating system in the same hard drive, then there is a chance that the hard drive gets corrupted due to improper installtion procedures.
• Repartitioning: If you want to create new partition then repartitioning of original hard drive is required. If repartitioning process is done improperly then it may corrupt the existing partition causing loss of data. You may also accidentally delete existing drive while repartitioning.
• File system corruption: During file system conversion, from FAT to NTFS, if the conversion is not done properly then file system will be damaged which may also lead to data loss.
• Bad sectors in hard disk: Bad sectors in hard disk are the part of the drive which has become unreadable, unusable and inaccessible. Bad sectors may be due to several reasons like corrupted boot records, configuration problems, excessive read/write operations, sudden power surges or due to certain viruses. This also leads to inaccessible of data from the hard disk.

If you are facing this data loss situation then don’t break your heart. You can recover data from bad drive by using Hard Drive recovery software. But before performing data recovery process, you should keep in mind two things:

• First and foremost thing to do, you should not save any new data on the drive.
• You should not format or re-partition the bad hard drive, with a unreliable third party tools

If you do not follow these steps then there is a risk of permanent data loss from your hard drive. So keeping in mind these points, you can perform recovery process easily by using bad hard drive recovery software within a few mouse clicks. The application recover documents from formatted hard drives like SATA, SCSI, and IDE drive within a short period of time. In addition to this, it is capable of performing seagate external hard drive file recovery and also includes restoration of data from Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 and Free Agent hard drive. This tool has designed with powerful alogorithms which helps you to restore data from after hard drive crash due to Master Boot Record corruption and occurrence of errors during file system conversion. And this tool has capable enough to recover dead hard drive data easily. It is simply designed and so it can be easily used by a person without any technical knowledge. This utility can retrieve data from any storage media and also supports Windows Operating System.

You may have know that Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 is one of the popular internal hard disk drives available now. Data will be completely inaccessible if a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive becomes bad. But it is not a problem anymore because Recover Seagate is powerful enough to perform data recovery from Seagate 7200.12 hard disk drives without no complexities. Using this tool, you can recover all your favorite types of files from that Seagate hard drive without missing a single file.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 is just an example of the different types of hard drives that comes under the span of this tool. You can easily go for recovering data from Seagate Freeagent Goflex just like Barracuda 7200.12. You can recover data from these hard drives irrespective of these are bad or corrupted. 

You can follow these simple steps to recover data from bad hard drive:

Step 1: Install and launch the tool after that run the appplicatio, a home screen opens up as shown in Figure 1. Click on the option "Recover Partition Recovery/ Drives"

Figure 1: Welcome Window

Step 2: You will find a screen with two options as shown in Figure 2. As we have to recover bad hard drive data, so select "Partition Recovery"

Figure 2: Pick Partition Recovery

Step 3: After that, new window appears where you have to specify the hard drive from which you want to recover data as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Select Bad Hard Drive

Step 4: Choose the bad hard drive and then click on "Next" button to proceed to next step. Then scanning process starts, after the completion of the process you can see the recovered files.

Figure 4: Preview list of recovered files